What has been the worst job you have ever done?

merchant navy deck cadet.
But only because I ended up with chronic gastritous for the 4 months I was away due to the food, which caused me to have the runs for that long. Not a pleasant memory. Besides that and the 1st officer playing favourites it was great, :)

I would have stayed otherwise,
 
Devrij said:
Either working at currys, for the **** pay and high pressure targets, or working on a building site as a groundworker which actually paid okay, but was incredibly hard work.
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I also vote currys. I done the warehouse and it was absolutely awful. Lasted 2 weeks.
 
Working in a chicken factory. It grew, killed, and packaged those chickens you buy on trays at supermarkets. I was vegetarian at the time. Worst thing was having to remove my ball closure rings from my ears and face before every shift. That required a pair of pliers. All because I wanted to spend my upcoming birthday in Manchester with friends.
 
Working on the tills in Homebase, particularly on a quiet day. I've had manual labour jobs which were very hard work but they cannot compare to the soul destroying, mind numbing boredom I endured watching the seconds of my life seep away in that place, it was torturous.
 
Washing fish boxes.

We had a conveyor belt machine which did the washing, I had to take the boxes off the pallets and feed them into the machine. Every now and again, the steam would build up in the hot pink coloured fish water, and blast back at you when you put a new box in!

£80 a week for 40hours. Did it 6 weeks over the summer when I was 15. Never again!
 
Materials/document archiving in the Winsford salt mine. While it was mega cool to be down there, the dust wasn't cool and lack of daylight makes you miserable.
 
I worked for a company that handled all the fake "you've been preselected for a guaranteed competition win" letters that used to come through people's doors. We had to open 1 box of 300 letters an hour and seperate the entry form from anything else in the envelope, usually letters from old people complaining that they had already spent hundreds of pounds and still not won.
 
I once worked for an ops dept for a well known international oil company, the things I learnt about their strategy have stuck with me. I quit after 2 months.

I actually liked a lot of the jobs I had when I was young, doing manual labour stuff all day the day never dragged and I was extremely physically fit.
 
Waiting tables at steak restaurant, lasted one shift, just not for me.

Working at an investment bank for 3 months due to internal site change was probably my least favourite job as was on first line IT support and put up with rude bankers all day. Do not recommend.
 
Worked in a printing factory in France for 2 months in summer - no summer holidays. It was to help me learn to pull my socks up and work harder at school and made me realise what I'd have to do if I didn't have qualifications or achieved better at school. It worked as I pulled my finger out somewhat.

4am starts, on your feet for 10hrs, hot (owing to the printing machines) and no air conditioning, pretty much no breaks, incessant work load, repetitive, boring, laborious and hard. A lot of it involved, running paper through a machine to cut/fold it a certain way. Others were to pack finished product in large boxes, and variations on that theme. Repeatedly for 5 days a week for very little pay. It was my least favourite summer holiday. I was a petulant teenager, and it did me a world of good - I did get to work with a pretty girl whose parents thought the same - every cloud...


I also worked in a cash management company - and as part of the management induction you had the option to spend a week out "on the road". Well that was very unpleasant and constantly had the thought of being attacked/shot/stabbed/beaten. What a grim job that was. After that the 16hrs working days felt like childs play as did the 3hr commute.
 
Kwik-Fit for a few months after I left the air force.

Stupid daily targets and basically being instructed to con customers into buying parts they don't need.
 
When I was 13 I worked at the local cab office where I cleaned the cabs. Got £5 a cab and could keep any change I found down the back of the seats. Was awful in the winter when it would be freezing cold outside and I had to work in damp clothes in the freezing cold. My hands would go numb.
 
branddaly said:
Working in a chicken factory. It grew, killed, and packaged those chickens you buy on trays at supermarkets. I was vegetarian at the time. Worst thing was having to remove my ball closure rings from my ears and face before every shift. That required a pair of pliers. All because I wanted to spend my upcoming birthday in Manchester with friends.
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At least it didn't crack you up.
 
1 week gutting chickens when I was 16 with a room full of sex mad ugly old women ( shudder)

Worked making mince in pork factory for a couple of weeks as well when I was 16 that was pretty grim. Mince = fat gristle and rubber gloves. Lol
 
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Efour said:
Temp dustbin man..2 weeks. Not a terrible job but worst as in having to almost be constantly walking jogging and being an unfit flump.

I got a lot of respect for them guys and girls now.
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Did it for three months over a summer whilst I was at Uni. Secretly quite enjoyed and it got me so fit as well.
 
Working for a company that amongst other things basically cleaned up murder scene's, stabbings, deaths, along with house evictions. Basically anything the local council or police didn't want to deal with.

Clearing houses that had been overflowing with junk, excrement, drugs, needles and anything else you can think of.
 
I was asked if I wanted to work as a porter in a hospital( had ideas about hot nurses and all) turn up and was met by some guy who looked like Frankenstein in a boiler suit who showed what we had to do...which was to destroy medical waste buckets.Job is a job right till one day a bucket busted open...and I noped out of there.

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